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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:
> Your local machine must have a fully qualified name, valid within
> the context of your firewalled network, or it cannot speak SMTP.

That's assuming that the receiving SMTP server cares what name you
give it in HELO/EHLO.  If it doesn't, then you can get away with not
having any name.

> Regardless, the Right Thing(tm) to do is to generate Sender headers
> yourself, so that the correct information is there.

Or suppress them completely, since no person or program cares whether
they're there at all.


paul